Holy Trinity Piarist Church
Holy Trinity Piarist Church
Original function:
church and monastery
Address:
Strada Universității 5
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7678168262, 23.590541924
History
After the Diploma Leopoldinum of 1690 allowed the resettlement of the previously expelled monastic orders, and Emperor Leopold I returned the Jesuits' previously confiscated properties, the Diet of Nagyszeben in 1692 gave them the buildings of the church and monastery in the old castle. As these buildings were soon outgrown, around 1700 they purchased the plot of land at the corner of Farkas Street and Inner Torda Street, where they built their complex of buildings for both religious and educational purposes.
Construction of the church began in 1718. The Transylvanian Catholic parishioners supported the construction with donations, and the Transylvanian Parliament, on the basis of the opinion of the Reformed Wesselényi István, also voted in favour of the church. The church was opened on 10 August 1724 and the solemn consecration was performed by Bishop Antalfi János on 13 May 1725.
After Pope Clement XIV abolished the Jesuit Order on 21 July 1773, Maria Theresa called in the Piarists, and the building was later known as the Piarist Church or the Academy Church.
The organ was made by Maywald Antal in 1849, based on the plans of Ruzitska György.
After 1948, when the Romanian state abolished the Greek Catholic Church, masses were held here in their mother tongue for the Romanian Catholic faithful who were left without a church.
On the main altar of the church is the picture of Our Lady from Füzesmikola. It was painted by an Orthodox priest named Lukács, who worked in the village of Nagyiklód. It was bought by a believer named Kopcsa János and donated to the Vlach Orthodox church in Mikola, where it shed tears for 26 days from 15 February 1699. On the news of this miraculous event, the landowner Count Korniss Zsigmond took it to his own castle, but a dispute arose over the ownership of the property, and finally Archbishop Kollonich Lipót of Esztergom donated it to the church in Kolozsmonostor. Before Pentecost 1699, it was transferred with great ceremony to the chapel of Kolozsmonostor, and a few days later to the Jesuit church in the town centre.
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